Bison: The other red meat (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Cardiologists have been good for Ed Eichten's bison meat sales. "People come up to my stand at the farmers markets and say, 'My doctor says the only red meat I can eat is bison,'" said Eichten, of Eichten's Hidden Acres in Center City, Minn. Despite the buffalo's shaggy, lumbering looks and 3,000-pound-plus girth, its meat is lean and nutritious. Farmers and grocers suspect the health benefits ......more...Winemakers go small scale at Oxbow market (Napa Valley Register)
Creating a community. That?s what Ed Maass and Dina Mondavi want to do when they open Folio Enoteca & Winery as part of Napa?s Oxbow Public Market, which is scheduled to open by mid-December....more... A great day for farm tour (The Canton Repository)
Today's weather is expected to be mostly sunny, topping out at 86 - perfect for a Sunday drive. And today offers the added lure of the 18th annual Stark County Drive-It-Yourself Farm Tour....more... Beefing Up Demand, Margins (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
To meet the needs of time-starved Americans, meat and poultry producers are offering more prepared, ready-to-cook meals....more... Dairy Focus: Coalition Launches Dairy Animal Well-Being Effort (CattleNetwork.com)
A producer-led coalition representing every facet of the dairy industry announced this week the creation of the National Dairy Animal Well-Being Initiative....more... Hurley brings glamor, mammogram message to Seattle (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Glamorous as ever, Elizabeth Hurley urged women to have mammograms Wednesday on a visit to Seattle, and sat for an interview with the P-I....more... Taste: Local bites (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Eating locally here is a piece of cake, so to speak, what with a months-long bounty of fruits and vegetables, flocks of cheesemakers, all sorts of meat on the hoof or the wing, and local grain millers. In fact, the only hurdle is January. And February. And March. Oh -- April, too. Those who champion the "eating local" movement, or locavores, say they're up to the challenge. Yet the issue isn't ......more... You don't have to be Jewish to relish this tasty exhibition (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Capturing the flavor of Jewish life in America involves more than a taste for pastrami or pickles. More than a sip of seltzer - the "two-cents plain" carbonated water so popular in the 1920s and '30s, precursor to today's huge soft drink market....more... Scotland's forgotten farmers fight for industry's future (The Scotsman)
IT WAS a day like any other for Kelvin Pate, tending to cattle and sheep on his 350-acre farm in Scotland yesterday. But his future, and the survival of thousands of other farmers, depends upon the outcome of a crisis that has been ignored or forgotten......more... |